HTC has unveiled a large smartphone, the Butterfly S, that features the most powerful battery the company has ever packed into a mobile device.
The Butterfly S is an upgrade of the Verizon Wireless-exclusive Droid DNA and will come with many of the same...

Need to buy a friend a birthday gift soon? Amazon.com doesn’t want you to go at it alone.
The online retailer released a new feature this week that allows a group of Facebook friends to collectively buy an Amazon.com gift card. Once logged in,...

In its most daring effort yet to stay in league with Apple and Samsung, HTC announced a massive marketing campaign Monday starring "Iron Man" actor Robert Downey Jr.
The Taiwanese phone maker confirmed it has signed Downey to a two-year deal, which is...

The HTC One smartphone will be sold by the nation's largest carrier beginning next week, four months after it launched on AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint.
Verizon Wireless said in a tweet early Friday that HTC's top phone of 2013 would cost $199 with a two-...

It didn't take long for Apple's fingerprint scanner to get a follower: HTC reportedly will announce a device with a similar feature next week.
The Wall Street Journal reports that on Oct. 15, the Taiwanese phone maker will unveil the HTC One Max, a larger version of its flagship smartphone that will include a fingerprint scanner much like the one Apple unveiled with the iPhone 5s last week.
The new iPhone's fingerprint scanner, called the Touch ID, lets users unlock their device by simply having their...

Underwhelming sales of the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4 led the two phone-making technology giants to miss analysts' quarterly profit estimates, according to preliminary earnings reports released Friday.
In the quarter ended June 30, HTC Corp. posted a net profit of $42 million, down 83% from a year ago.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said its operating profit was in the $8.3-billion range, up 50%, but it was still considered a disappointment in the eyes of analysts. Both HTC and Samsung spent...

HTC on Thursday formally unveiled the HTC One mini, a slightly smaller version of its flagship smartphone.
The Taiwanese company teased the announcement Wednesday, tweeting "we have a ‘little’ bit of news tomorrow," and releasing a picture of a device inside a small pocket. Rumors of the smaller smartphone had been floating around the Internet for quite some time.
The new device will essentially come with the same features as its larger variant. The main difference is the size of its...

The HTC One (M8) is now on sale, and soon, it will be joined by the Samsung Galaxy S5. Along with the iPhone 5s, consumers will soon have quite a few top devices to choose from.
Here's how the three devices stack up.
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Users who simply want the largest screen possible should go with the Galaxy S5. The Samsung device features a 5.1-inch, full 1080p HD screen. In second place is the HTC One (M8), which features a slightly smaller, 5-inch 1080p HD screen.
The iPhone 5s is much smaller than its...

OnLive, whose abrupt restructuring on Friday left half of its staff jobless, has also put some of its investors in the cold.
Among them is Taiwanese cellphone manufacturer HTC Corp., which reported on Monday that it has lost $40 million in OnLive's financial reorganization.
OnLive, a video game streaming company, has been struggling in recent months to resonate with consumers who have been slow to embrace its cloud-based games model.
HTC, in a statement, said, "Due to lack of operating cash and an...

Beats by Dre, the Santa Monica-based maker of high-end headphones founded by rap pioneer Dr. Dre and veteran music executive Jimmy Iovine, is expected to shortly announce a deal to acquire digital music service MOG, according to executives familiar with the transaction.
The agreement, which is not yet finalized, calls for Beats to pay roughly $10 million for MOG, a Berkeley, Calif.-based streaming service with about 500,000 subscribers.
A MOG spokeswoman was not immediately available for comment. A...